Anne Arundel County police were investigating the fatal shooting of a 23-year-old man inside a Severn home early Friday and said they believe the victim was targeted. Officers found Vejar Deaunte Rodwell suffering from a gunshot wound in his upper torso about 12:02 a.m. in the 1700 block of Richfield Drive, police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Rodwell's body was taken to the state medical examiner's office for an autopsy, police said. Based on their preliminary investigation, homicide detectives believe a man forced his way inside the home and shot Rodwell before fleeing, police said.

A 28-year-old Severn man was arrested on multiple gun and drug charges Tuesday after paramedics responded to his home and found his 5-year-old son had ingested methadone, according to Anne Arundel County Police. Paul Kristopher Brooks, of the 1200 block of Reece Road, could also face child neglect charges, and charges are also pending against an additional, unidentified suspect, police said. Emergency personnel first responded to Brooks' home about 8:10 p.m. Tuesday after a 911 caller reported the boy was not breathing after accidentally ingesting the prescription narcotic and powerful liquid pain killer, police said.

The badly burned body of a woman was found by Anne Arundel County firefighters yesterday as they extinguished a blaze in a Severn home. The fire at a house in the 8200 block of New Cut Road was reported about 10 a.m. It was contained within half an hour, said Lt. Frank Fennell, a Fire Department spokesman. Fennell said the victim suffered severe burns. The body was taken to the state medical examiner's for an autopsy and identification. The lone occupant of the house was a woman, and attempts were being made to contact relatives.

The father of a woman killed 37 years ago in her Severn home has put up a $10,000 reward, hoping to generate new leads to help police find her killer. Phyllis Bohle was bludgeoned with a fireplace poker and stabbed on March 25, 1974, when she was 23. Traditional investigative methods and DNA tests have not led detectives to a suspect. Omer "Bud" Gray, 83, said not a day goes by that he doesn't dwell on the crime, and miss his eldest child — who would be 61 now. "It's been bothering me quite a bit, and the older I get, the worse it gets.

A fire sparked by a child playing with a lighter yesterday morning caused about $20,000 in damage to a two-story Severn home, firefighters said.Anne Arundel County firefighters were dispatched to the house in the 1700 block of Angel Court about 8 a.m. and found smoke billowing from windows, said Battalion Chief John Scholz.Scholz said it took firefighters about 20 minutes to control the blaze that started in the 3-year-old's room. No one was injured.Pub Date: 2/15/98

A Wednesday night blaze at the Spa Cove Apartments in Annapolis left a dozen residents temporarily homeless, fire officials said. Hours later, three Severn residents were displaced after a fire ravaged their single-family house on Watts Avenue near Arundel Mills Mall, Anne Arundel County fire officials said. In Annapolis, firefighters evacuated 10 adults and two children shortly before 10 p.m. Wednesday, when the fire raced through a third-floor apartment, said Capt. Joseph Martin, a spokesman for the city Fire Department.

A two-day manhunt ended yesterday with the capture of a 19-year-old man who was charged in the stabbing death of a 61-year-old woman in her Severn home Sunday.Reginald Cooper of the 11500 block of Ridgely Road in Caroline County was arrested without incident about 12: 30 p.m. after police got a tip that he was hiding in a home in the 1800 block of Eagle Court, less than half a mile from the house where Joan T. Maiolo was killed. He was charged with first-degree murder.According to police, the two were strangers.

A two-day manhunt culminated yesterday with the arrest of a 19-year-old man who police believe stabbed a 61-year-old woman to death in her Severn home Sunday.Reginald Cooper of the 11500 block of Ridgely Road in Caroline County was arrested without incident about 12: 30 p.m. and charged with first-degree murder. Police received a tip that Cooper was at a residence in the 1800 block of Eagle Court, less than a half-mile from the house where Joan T. Maiolo was killed.According to police, Cooper and Maiolo were not acquainted, although Cooper has given addresses in the same Orchard at Severn community as his over the past two years.

A 28-year-old Severn man was arrested on multiple gun and drug charges Tuesday after paramedics responded to his home and found his 5-year-old son had ingested methadone, according to Anne Arundel County Police. Paul Kristopher Brooks, of the 1200 block of Reece Road, could also face child neglect charges, and charges are also pending against an additional, unidentified suspect, police said. Emergency personnel first responded to Brooks' home about 8:10 p.m. Tuesday after a 911 caller reported the boy was not breathing after accidentally ingesting the prescription narcotic and powerful liquid pain killer, police said.

The father of a woman killed 37 years ago in her Severn home has put up a $10,000 reward, hoping to generate new leads to help police find her killer. Phyllis Bohle was bludgeoned with a fireplace poker and stabbed on March 25, 1974, when she was 23. Traditional investigative methods and DNA tests have not led detectives to a suspect. Omer "Bud" Gray, 83, said not a day goes by that he doesn't dwell on the crime, and miss his eldest child — who would be 61 now. "It's been bothering me quite a bit, and the older I get, the worse it gets.

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Anne Arundel County police were investigating the fatal shooting of a 23-year-old man inside a Severn home early Friday and said they believe the victim was targeted. Officers found Vejar Deaunte Rodwell suffering from a gunshot wound in his upper torso about 12:02 a.m. in the 1700 block of Richfield Drive, police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Rodwell's body was taken to the state medical examiner's office for an autopsy, police said. Based on their preliminary investigation, homicide detectives believe a man forced his way inside the home and shot Rodwell before fleeing, police said.

A Wednesday night blaze at the Spa Cove Apartments in Annapolis left a dozen residents temporarily homeless, fire officials said. Hours later, three Severn residents were displaced after a fire ravaged their single-family house on Watts Avenue near Arundel Mills Mall, Anne Arundel County fire officials said. In Annapolis, firefighters evacuated 10 adults and two children shortly before 10 p.m. Wednesday, when the fire raced through a third-floor apartment, said Capt. Joseph Martin, a spokesman for the city Fire Department.

Anne Arundel County police are investigating two separate incidents that left four county residents dead - a married couple shot Tuesday night in an apparent murder-suicide, and a mother and son in Severn who were found dead that afternoon in a case in which police have not ruled out accidental causes. Police said that about 11 p.m. Tuesday, Scott Christopher Naumann, 40, fatally shot his wife, Lenette Ann Naumann, 36, at their home on Elm Road in Millersville. He then turned the handgun on himself.

Anne Arundel County police are investigating two separate incidents that left four county residents dead -- a married couple shot Tuesday night in an apparent murder-suicide, and a mother and son in Severn who were found dead that afternoon in a case in which police have not ruled out accidental causes. Police said that about 11 p.m. Tuesday, Scott Christopher Naumann, 40, fatally shot his wife, Lenette Ann Naumann, 36, at their home on Elm Road in Millersville. He then turned the handgun on himself.

The badly burned body of a woman was found by Anne Arundel County firefighters yesterday as they extinguished a blaze in a Severn home. The fire at a house in the 8200 block of New Cut Road was reported about 10 a.m. It was contained within half an hour, said Lt. Frank Fennell, a Fire Department spokesman. Fennell said the victim suffered severe burns. The body was taken to the state medical examiner's for an autopsy and identification. The lone occupant of the house was a woman, and attempts were being made to contact relatives.

Police raid Severn home; 2 held on drug chargesJTCCounty police arrested two people on drug charges at a Severn home Wednesday night.Police said they were responding to complaints from neighbors that drugs were being dealt out of a home in the 1400 block of Watts Ave.At 8:30 p.m., members of the special operations section and the Western District Tactical Narcotics Team went into the home and seized drug paraphernalia, smoking devices, containers and small...

Someone stole a pit bull Sunday from the back yard of a Severn home, county police said yesterday.Jessica A. Lamb, 17, told police that the dog had been on a chain in her back yard in the 8400 block of Pioneer Drive and apparently was taken sometime between 3 p.m. and 10 p.m.The pit bull is 7 months old, light brown with a white spot on its chest and is named Smoka, Ms. Lamb told police.

A Severn home was destroyed yesterday in a three-alarm blaze that officials say was ignited by a hot electric chain saw left too close to combustable materials, officials said. A neighbor knocked on the door about 2 p.m. to alert the family to flames coming from the back of the two-story house in the 1200 block of Thompson Ave., said county Battalion Chief John M. Scholz, the fire department spokesman. Two of the home's three adult occupants, who were there at the time, escaped without injury.

The father of an 11-year-old boy who died in an April car accident with traces of drugs and alcohol in his blood has been arrested and charged with letting teen-agers drink and smoke marijuana in his home, Anne Arundel County police said.Edward Earl Cordova, 47, was arrested about 10: 15 p.m. Wednesday at his home at the 7900 block of McNeilin Way in Severn after county narcotics detectives searched the one-story ranch house for more than an hour on a search-and-seizure warrant. They found two teen-agers smoking marijuana and recovered a bag of the drug, Sgt. Jeff Price said.